Weekly note

Hiking in March

Where the days are dry and cool enough to walk all day, measured over ten years. In March, 12 places are good and 16 fair.

Everywhere

  1. Tenerife Spain good 28 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 21°C by day
  2. Marseille France good 26 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  3. Mallorca Spain good 25 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 18°C by day
  4. Petra Jordan good 25 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 16°C by day
  5. Crete Greece good 23 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 18°C by day
  6. Corsica France good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 16°C by day
  7. Hong Kong Hong Kong good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 23°C by day
  8. Kathmandu Nepal good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 22°C by day
  9. Lake Garda Italy good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  10. Queenstown New Zealand good 22 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 19°C by day
  11. Madeira Portugal good 21 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 19°C by day
  12. The Amalfi Coast Italy good 21 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 16°C by day
  13. Cinque Terre Italy fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  14. Granada Spain fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 17°C by day
  15. Lake Como Italy fair 20 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 14°C by day
  16. Montenegro Montenegro fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  17. The Azores Portugal fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 16°C by day
  18. Zion United States fair 19 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  19. Cape Town South Africa fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
  20. Cappadocia Turkey fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
  21. Seoul South Korea fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
  22. Taipei Taiwan fair 18 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 23°C by day
  23. Andorra Andorra fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
  24. Asheville United States fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 15°C by day
  25. Denver United States fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 13°C by day
  26. Oahu United States fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 26°C by day
  27. Sofia Bulgaria fair 17 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
  28. Freiburg im Breisgau Germany fair 16 of 31 days dry and 10–27 °C · 12°C by day
Photo credits

Tenerife by H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMarseille by Clément Bardot, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMallorca by Heuschrecke (Dmitry Tonkonog and Ksenia Fedosova), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPetra by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCrete by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCorsica by Isiwal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLake Garda by High Contrast, CC BY 3.0 de, via Wikimedia CommonsQueenstown by Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMadeira by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Amalfi Coast by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCinque Terre by Luca Casartelli, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsGranada by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLake Como by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsMontenegro by Marcin Konsek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Azores by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsCappadocia by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTaipei by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAndorra by Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDenver by USFWS Mountain-Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsSofia by Pudelek (Marcin Szala), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsFreiburg im Breisgau by Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How a month is tested for hiking

A test on measured figures, the same at every place and from every city: the same month always gives the same answer. It is "good" or "fair", and a month that passes neither is simply not listed. It is separate from the month's own verdict, which also weighs holidays, crowds and fares.

Hiking, other months

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Measured at each place's own point, where its visitors stay, not up on the trails: a mountain path is about 6.5 °C cooler for every 1,000 m it climbs.